Traffic is at a standstill for miles on end around M5 in Exeter with long queues snaking back to the A30 and A38.

Highways England is reporting stationary traffic around the final junction of the M5 where it becomes the A38 heading towards Plymouth and Torbay and the road branches off to the A30 in Cornwall.

According to Highways England, the southbound carriageway of the M5 is severely affected as a knock-on effect on immobile traffic on the A38 westbound. The traffic feeding onto the A30 is also severely affected.

The queues are the aftermath of a bin lorry overturning this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to the bottom of Haldon Hill on when the lorry left the Plymouth-bound carriageway of the A38 and hit the central reservation at about 1.30pm.

The black sections are stationery traffic.

The driver of the lorry was not hurt in the accident but the vehicle was blocking a lane while recovery was taking place.

It has caused major delays with traffic stationary at each side of the incident on the A30, M5, between junction 31 and 31, and A38.

Traffic was currently being diverted via the exit and entry slip roads at the junction while recovery was ongoing. Delays of more than an hour were being reported.

The overturned lorry which has caused the incident.

Highways England urged drivers to plan ahead in order to avoid the queues.